AXN Clouds Fly

This is a powered remote controlled glider plane. It is balanced, forgiving in flight, has curved wingtips for stability, a powerful motor for steep climbs and ultra fast pass-bys, and characteristics to glide around forever on thermals.

Fasten the battery and canopy properly to allow rolls and loops without loosing parts

Add fiber reinforced tape to the bottom of the plane to ease landing on rough surfaces

On stock motor, re-glue magnets with epoxy or CA glue after a few flights

Use a rubber-band and mounts, magnets, or velcro, to keep the wings tighter together [25][26]

Mount the propeller the right way, the concaved or inward bent curve of the propeller should face the tail, text the front

The text must face toward the front, or on pusher propellers to the back [27]

If propeller is mounted the correct way but rotates the wrong way, swap any two of the three motor wires between the motor and ESC

Cut off excess length of the push-rods to avoid poking holes in battery or ESC

During launch, use 45-50% throttle, trim elevator down a few clicks or program flap-switch to 15-20% elev up to avoid diving, hard throw 20% up into the air, clear elevator up trim [28][29][30][31][32]

Use blue threadlock on push-rod connectors and any metal to metal screws or nuts

Mark the wingtips with red decals/tape to easier identify the orientation of the airplane against the sky

Always take-off against the wind and the same for landing, against the wind as lower landing-speed requires more lift to avoid stall

Use the inner-most hole on the wing-horn and the outer-most hole on the servo-arm for maximum throw [40][41]

To make the plane less reactive/twitchy for beginners, use push-rod on inner hole of servo and outer hole on the control horn, can also be range/exponential limited on transmitter [42]

Flaperons can help to make landing and launching easier, more angle of attack for resistance and decrease airspeed, replace Y-cable by two seperate aileron channels, programmed by the transmitter, spoilerons are flaperons inverted up [43]

Thrust line should pass through both the center of mass and the center of drag [44][45]

Motor pod should have a slight 3 degree angle, thrust line, pointing down toward the center-of-gravity point, to minimize elevator pitch down effect caused by the plane pivoting forward when throttling up the motor and also through the center-of-pressure at high speeds, use elevator to compensate [46][47]

For prop-saver, attach the o-ring around the prop and to the 2 grub screws straight no crossing, more centered this way [48][49]

Change the motor if the motor begins to vibrate during testing and propeller is balanced, motor is unbalanced [50]

To keep the same ESC current draw; when going up in prop size go down in motor Kv [51]